sudo apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove mysql-server

[Daniel Tobin]

me@host:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mysql-server mysql-server-5.5
The following packages have been kept back:
  mysql-client-5.5
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libmysqlclient18 mysql-client-core-5.5 mysql-common mysql-server-core-5.5
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,950 kB of archives.
After this operation, 32.8 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

me@host:~$ dpkg -l | grep mysql
ii libdbd-mysql-perl 4.020-1build2 Perl5 database interface to the MySQL database
ii libmysqlclient18 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 MySQL database client library
ii mysql-client-5.5 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 MySQL database client binaries
ii mysql-client-core-5.5 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 MySQL database core client binaries
ii mysql-common 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 MySQL database common files, e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf
ii mysql-server 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest version)
ii mysql-server-5.5 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 MySQL database server binaries and system database setup
ii mysql-server-core-5.5 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 MySQL database server binaries